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Christian New Woman and the Ethics of Marriage in Modern Korea: Focusing on Park In-Duk

  • The Korean Journal of Chiristian Social Ethics
  • Abbr : 기사윤
  • 2014, (29), pp.345-375
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Christian Social Ethics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology

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ABSTRACT

Protestantism introduced various ethical codes of marriage to modern Korea. While protestantism set the patriarchal ethics of marriage against traditional or secular ethics by the rhetoric of discontinuity and the strategy of control, protestant New Women tried to resist and transform them. By lens of marriage, this article aims at exploring the life of protestant New Women, who shattered the gender hierarchy by challenging the patriarchal ethics. The author made a focus on reconstructing the life of Park In-duk, a protestant New Woman, who was conflicted with the protestant patriarchal ethics of marriage, but lived a life different from New Women pursuing love for love's sake. She revealed the structure of gender unequality and shook the gendered landscape by way of choosing the divorce by herself. Park In-duk could resist the patriarchal culture by realizing the fact that she was created in the image of God through a conversion experience, and by realizing that she is a independent woman through modern education. Protestantism played the major role of establishing the patriarchal ethics of marriage in modern Korea by identifying those ethics with God's order. Redescribing the life of Park In-duk, therefore, could be a critical activity to overcome the gender unequality and a channel to reinforce the ethic of human dignity based on the concept of Imago Dei.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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